20 She will never be inhabited,+ nor will she reside for generation after generation.+ And there the Arab will not pitch his tent, and no shepherds will let [their flocks] lie down there.

12 “‘And it must occur that when seventy years have been fulfilled+ I shall call to account against the king of Babylon and against that nation,’+ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘their error, even against the land of the Chal·deʹans,+ and I will make it desolate wastes to time indefinite.+

43 Her cities have become an object of astonishment, a waterless land and a desert plain.+ As a land, in them* no man* will dwell, and through them no son of mankind* will pass.+

64 And you must say, ‘This is how Babylon will sink down and never rise up because of the calamity that I am bringing in upon her;+ and they will certainly tire themselves out.’”+

Down to this point are the words of Jeremiah.